linux-kernel - Re: D-cache aliasing issue in __block_prepare

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Message-Id: <20061005.131943.11597704.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:19:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmonakhov@...nvz.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: D-cache aliasing issue in __block_prepare_write

From: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:16:46 +0400

> It's seems I've found D-cache aliasing issue in fs/buffer.c
 ...
> x86 does not have cache aliasing problems, the problem could
> show up only on marginal archs, ia64 is the most frequently used.
> 
> Following is the patch against 2.6.18 fix this issue:

This patch looks good to me.
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